Hub-fastener.



, A. B. ROXBERG.v

, HUB FAsTENElL v l APPLICATION PILED'FOVA, 1008.,

Pagnamaya 1909.

@maken r/fvedE poxlfefr i mslm I ARIVED E. ROXBERG, OF ROSINGTOWN, MINNESOTA.

I'IUB-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed November 2, 1908. Serial No. 460,621.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, Anrvnn E. ROXBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rosingtown, in the county of Morrison, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hub-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following `to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices employed for securing hubs upon axle journals, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a fastening means wherein the use of screw threads are obviated and the fastening means automatically applied, and removable without the employment of wrenches or other im lements.

/Vith t ese and other objects in view, the invention consists in an axle journal having a cavity in its outer end provided with a reduced communicating aperture, a cap engaging over the outer end of the journal, and spring actuated catch devices swinging from t e cap and operating through the aperture to lock the cap to the journal.

The invention further consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the iniproved device. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

The improved device may be applied to any of the various forms of axle journals in use, but is more particularly applicable to the journals of the larger class of vehicles, such as farm and freight wagons and the like, and for the purpose of illustration the improved device is shown applied to an axle journal of this class in which 10 represents the skein or shell tting over the outer end of a wooden axle 11 of the ordinary construction.

The outer end of the skein 10 is provided with a cavity or recess 12, and the skein secured to the wooden axle 11 by a lag screw 13. The recess 12 is formed with a reduced a erture 14 providing communication t rough the outer end of the skein and wheretwo catch members 21-22, the catch members adapted to pass through the aperture 14 and into the recess 12 of the journal when the cap member is positioned upon the journal, the terminals of the catch members having lateral projections 23-24 engaging in the rear of the overhanging portions 15, as shown.

The outer faces of the projections 23h24 are op ositely inclined, as shown, so that when t ie cap is located over the journal the catch members will automatically enter the aperture 14 and extend in the rear of the overhanging portions 15, the catch members being provided with a spring 25 to maintain them yieldably in their extendedA position.

A portion of the hub is represented at 26, and the innerl face of the cap 16 is designed to bear against the outer face of the hub, while the inner face of the hub bears against the usual collar 27 of the journal. By this simple means it will be obvious that the hub is firmly secured in position upon the journal by simply de ressing the ca over the end of the journa with the catc i members passing into the recess 12 and their barbed inner ends engaging in the rear of the over hanging portions 15, as described.

When the nut is to be detached, the catch members 21-22 are compressed by the fingers of the operator or a suitable implement employed for the purpose to withdraw the projections 28-24 from engagement with the overhangingportion 15, when the nut will be free to be detached. To replace the nut it is only necessary to force it inwardly over the outer end of the sleeve, the inclined faces of the projections engaging with the edges of the opening and thereby being au-A tomatically compressed and caused to again engage in the rear of the overhanging por? tions.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and applied to axle journals of various sizes, and to aXle journalsemployerl l f. having a cavity in the outer end with a reduced a erture communicating with the cavity W ereby portions of the journal. over hang the cavity, a cap bearing "over the outer terminal of the journal and rovided with an aperture registering with tie aper- Vture of the Cavity and with spaced ears at the. sides of the aperture thereof, two arms swinging between said ears and extending through the apertures with laterally directed terminals in the rear of the overhanging" portions of the journal, and a spring operating between said arms.

ln testimony whereof, l aliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARIVED E. ROXBERG.

Witnesses A. T. LARsoN, AUGUST SwANsoN. 

